Curriculum

Learn to farm. Farm to learn.

Successful farmers must be Jacks & Jills of all trades - i.e. growers, mechanics, scientists, businesspeople, caregivers, meteorologists, and the list goes on. At the Organic Farm School, we strive to expose our students to as many of these important skills as possible so that they will be prepared for running their own successful farm businesses. We've spent 9 years revising our curriculum to best serve our students' learning goals and the ever-changing landscape of food and farming. We use variety of resources in our classes including the CASFS curriculum modules - Organic Farming and Gardening Curriculum and Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability Curriculum; SARE's Building Soils for Better Crops, MISA's Building a Sustainable Business, and Richard Wiswall's The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook, among others. Here is our list of our classroom topics (several topics take more than one class) and we do many more trainings out in the field: